People say it sucks because it takes up so much space and needs a lot of RAM to make it not be really slow.

It's good apart from that. I find it ok, but I don't use it for gaming or anything.

all new computers come with at least 2 gigs of ram installed. Thats all I have, and Vista runs as fast as ever. Of course, I'm gonna go out and buy four 2gig ram sticks so my Steam games don't lock up when loading.

None the less, Vista is great. Just don't install it on a computer you bought in 2003.

I use Windows Vista with 1 gig of built-in RAM, and it seems to run just fine. Recently, I decided to take advantage of the ReadyBoost feature to add around another gig of RAM to my laptop. It doesn't really seem to do anything though, so I'm wondering if it's working.

Both desktop and lappy are dual boot with XP and Kubuntu Linux. Desktop was just Kubuntu for the longest time, but then I actually got back into computer games... installed XP just to see how much better they would run, and they ran much better (on the operating system they were designed for?!?! Who would've known!?!), so now I hardly use Linux anymore.

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all new computers come with at least 2 gigs of ram installed. Thats all I have, and Vista runs as fast as ever. Of course, I'm gonna go out and buy four 2gig ram sticks so my Steam games don't lock up when loading.

Well, my lappy came with 512 meg of RAM, and I only bought it a month ago. It also came with Vista, which it really struggled to run.

It now has 1.5 gig and it's fine.

EDIT: But I did get it straight from the manufacturer, if a shop sold it it would probably come with much more RAM.

I have Windows XP, Windows 2000, and Fedora Core Linux boxes at home, and I'm using a Mac here at work (and hopefully getting a MacBook soon, which I might try to dual-boot with Linux). Actually, depending on the cost, I might try and get all three OS's on one computer, mostly for the reason Kupo said.